Color

#a09540

#a09540
hex#a09540
rgbrgb(160, 149, 64)
hslhsl(53, 43%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.662 0.107 102)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2934

Colors that go with #a09540

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Champagne lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #a09540

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#404ba0

#a06540 · #7ba040

#40a095 · #9540a0

Split-complementary

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#407ba0 · #6540a0

#40a065 · #404ba0 · #a0407b

Contrast

#a09540 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.06:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #807733 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5826 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.63:1)
Aaon black
6.87:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a49941 as the text (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a09540 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#a09540 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a09540
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a09540 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a09540-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md